Apocryphal and esoteric sources in the development of Christianity and Judaism : : the Eastern Mediterranean, the Near East, and beyond / / edited by Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev.

• Superior document: Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity
• TeilnehmendeR: Dorfmann-Lazarev, Igor,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (652 pages)

"Apocryphal traditions, often shared by Jews and Christians, have played a significant role in the history of both religions. The 26 essays in this volume examine regional and linguistic developments in Ethiopia, Egypt, Syria, Armenia, the Balkans, and Italy. Dissenting groups, such as the Samaritans, followers of John the Baptist, and mediæval dualists are also discussed. Furthermore, the book looks at interactions of Judaism and Christianity with the religions of Iran. Seldom verified or authorized, and frequently rejected by Churches, apocryphal texts had their own process of development, undergoing significant transformations. The book shows how apocryphal accounts could become a medium of literary and artistic elaboration and mythological creativity. Local adaptations of Biblical stories indicate that copyists, authors and artists conceived of themselves as living not in a post-Biblical era, but in direct continuity with Biblical personages"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

The exoteric settings of Jewish esotericism / Ithamar Gruenwald -- The Gospel of Peter between the synoptics, second century, and late antique 'apostolic memoirs' / Tobias Nicklas -- All mysteries revealed? On the interplay between hiding and revealing and the dangers of heavenly journeys according to the Ascension of Isaiah / Joseph Verheyden -- Early Christianity and the pagan mysteries : esoteric knowledge? / Jan N. Bremmer -- The medieval dualist nachleben of early Jewish and Christian esoteric traditions : the role of the pseudepigrapha / Yuri Stoyanov -- The esoteric cardinal : Giorgios Gemistos, Bessarion and theurgy / Ezio Albrile -- La création d'Adam à Noravank : théologie et narrativité / Jean-Pierre Mahé -- Translatio corporis Adæ : trajectories of a parabiblical tradition / Sergey Minov -- Apostles, long dead 'heretics', and monks : noncanonical traditions on angels and protoplasts in two late antique Coptic apocalypses (7th-8th century CE) / Daniele Tripaldi -- Face as the image of God in the Jewish pseudepigrapha / Andrei A. Orlov -- On the perdition of the higher intellect and on the image of light : critical edition, translation, and commentary / Maria V. Korogodina and Basil Lourié -- Bridging the gaps in the Samaritan tradition / Abraham Tal -- 'On the mountains of Ararat' : Noah's ark and the sacred topography of Armenia / Nazénie Garibian -- The historian's craft and temporal bridges in Apocrypha and in early Christian art : para-biblical sources in the light of the work of Marc Bloch / Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev -- Quellen der nichtbiblischen Mose-Überlieferung in der Kratkaja Chronografičeskaja Paleja / Dieter Fahl and Sabine Fahl -- Whether lamb or lion : overlapping metaphors in Jewish and Christian apocalypticism / Abraham Terian -- Rescuing John the Baptist / Albert I. Baumgarten -- The esoteric legacy of the Magi of Bethlehem in the framework of the Iranian speculations about Jesus, Zoroaster and his three posthumous sons / Antonio Panaino -- Visual Apocrypha : the case of Mary and the Magi in early Christian Rome / Felicity Harley -- Gnostic and Mithraic themes in Sefer Zerubbabel / Yishai Kiel -- 1 Enoch 17 in the Geneva papyrus 187 / David Hamidović -- Enochic traditions in Slavia Orthodoxa / Florentina Badalanova Geller -- Visions of paradise in the Life of St Andrew the Fool and the legacy of the Jewish pseudepigrapha in Byzantium / Emmanouela Grypeou -- Eternal chains and the mountain of darkness : the fallen angels in the incantation bowls / Yakir Paz -- Iconography of angels : roots and origins in the earliest Christian art / Cecilia Proverbio -- The gardens of Eden : compositional, iconographic and semantic similarities between the 'birds mosaic' of the Armenian Chapel in Jerusalem and the mosaic of the synagogue at Ma'on (Nirim) / Zaruhi Hakobyan -- Postscript : border-crossing texts / Hartmut Leppin.